June 21, 2018
Mercy announced plans Tuesday to build a new $54 million cancer center on the campus of St. Anthony’s Medical Center, which was taken over by Mercy last year. The new cancer facility will include a connector to the hospital and is expected to open by summer 2019. The 70,000-square-foot, two-story, standalone cancer center will require
[ Read More ]By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com With school security weighing heavily on the minds of parents, local cities and school districts are doing what they can to beef up security measures. Since the Feb. 14 school massacre in Parkland, Florida, and the latest shooting last week in Santa Fe, Texas, state, city and school district
[ Read More ]By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com A St. Charles judge will decide whether 6th District County Councilman Ernie Trakas, R-Oakville, has to forfeit his office for violating the county Charter with his work as an attorney for public school districts. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Douglas Beach transferred the case to the St. Charles County
[ Read More ]A large contingent of students from Long Elementary in Crestwood attended Girls on the Run in downtown St. Louis last weekend. The girls train for the event all year.
[ Read More ]Pictured above: A Mehlville school-resource officer with Oakville Elementary students after the school held a “PJs for Police” day in 2016 to benefit BackStoppers. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com School security is still a top focus of the Mehlville School District months after attention heightened on the issue nationally due to the school shooting
[ Read More ]By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com Lindbergh Schools has racked up top statewide rankings over the last decade, but now it has another, less positive one: It is the last district in the state that doesn’t offer tuition-free full-day kindergarten. That’s not because the district doesn’t want to offer a full-day program, however, Superintendent Jim
[ Read More ]This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Last update 3:48 p.m. Students have returned to class after being evacuated after a threat at Sperreng Middle School in Lindbergh Schools after the school received an unspecified threat inside the building around lunchtime Thursday. The St. Louis County Police Department finished a “thorough search” with
[ Read More ]By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com A new proposed countywide sales tax for the St. Louis Zoo is bringing out passionate opinions on both sides of the question of whether county residents have it in them to fund another tax for the zoo. St. Louis County and city residents already fund the Zoo-Museum District through
[ Read More ]By Gloria Lloyd News Editor news3@callnewspapers.com St. Louis County and city voters could double the taxes they pay to the St. Louis Zoo if they approve a new sales tax for a zoo expansion in north county. The zoo is asking the County Council to approve a new sales tax of one-eighth of 1 cent.
[ Read More ]Police issued charges Thursday against a Concord man for drunk driving after he pulled onto Lemay Ferry Road Thursday and struck and killed an Oakville motorcyclist. Jacob Kaiser, 20, of the 3000 block of Oakvilla Manor Court in Oakville, died from his injuries after a crash Wednesday in which he was hit by an SUV
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